2023–24 NIFL Championship

The 2023–24 NIFL Championship was the seventh season of the NIFL Championship since gaining senior status. The season began on 5 August 2023 and concluded on 26 April 2024.
The champions were promoted to the 2024–25 NIFL Premiership. The runners-up qualified for the NIFL Premiership play-off, losing and remaining in the league. The eleventh-placed team qualified for the [|NIFL Championship play-off], losing and being relegated to the 2024–25 NIFL Premier Intermediate League alongside the bottom-placed team.

Teams

The league consisted of twelve teams; ten teams remaining from the previous season, one team promoted from the NIFL Premier Intermediate League, and one team relegated from the NIFL Premiership. Bangor were promoted to the league as champions of the 2022–23 NIFL Premier Intermediate League. Portadown were relegated to the league as the bottom-placed team of the 2022–23 NIFL Premiership.

League table

Results

Matches 1–33

For matches 1–22, each team plays every other team twice. For matches 23–33, each team plays every other team for the third time.

Matches 34–38

For the final five matches, the table splits into two halves, with the top six teams forming Section A and the bottom six teams forming Section B. Each team plays every other team in their respective section once. The fixtures are reversed from those played during rounds 23–33, ensuring that teams have played every other team in their respective section twice at home and twice away overall throughout the season.

NIFL Championship play-off

The eleventh-placed club faced the second-placed club from the 2023–24 NIFL Premier Intermediate League in a two-legged play-off for the final place in the following season's Championship.